The 25 best GIFs from the first half of the 2017 college football season

2017 has already provided us with a ton of fun and memorable moments and here are 25 of our favorite GIFs from the first seven weeks of the season. This list was hard to cull to 25. If the next seven weeks are anything like the first, we could do a post with 100 GIFs at the end of the season.

He explained what happened to Yahoo Sports: “Once it got blocked, right when they blocked it, it hit my chest so I guess that made me look at the ball,” Hopkins told Yahoo Sports. “And once I saw the ball bouncing, it’s a live ball and I didn’t want them to return it or cause a change of momentum so I kicked it.

“I saw that it went in and I looked at my holder and I was like ‘does that count?’” And everyone was just confused and we just waited on the refs’ decision.”

An errant snap sailed past Louisiana Tech QB J’Mar Smith. The ball just bounced further and further down the field as players tried to recover it until Tech wideout Cee Jay Powell fell on the loose ball 87 yards down the field. The play started at MSU’s 6, and ended at the Louisiana Tech 7. Yes, the Bulldogs had third and goal from their own 7-yard line. That’s an 87-yard loss.

Louisiana Tech lost 87 yards on a single play, leading to third and goal from its own 7.

Wyoming punter Tim Zaleski had a rough debut. On a play late in the second quarter, he received a snap cleanly but bobbled it as he went to launch the kick. The result was Zaleski just missing the ball altogether.

Western Michigan beat Buffalo in 7OT a few weeks ago. In the first overtime, Western Michigan tight end Donnie Ernsberger caught a touchdown pass and his sister ran out on the field to celebrate with him. But the game was not over and she was escorted off the field and out of the stadium.

Iowa has a new tradition that has quickly become one of the best in college football. At the end of the first quarter, Hawkeye fans wave in unison toward the children at a local children’s hospital. Opposing teams have joined in, but it never looked better than the night game against Penn State.